Can anybody tell me if there is a way to setup a task to wake up an SCE client that is powered off? This would be nice to be able to deploy software after business hours if you could schedule a wake on lan during the deployment. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi, SCE does not support this feature. As I know, SCCM can do it. Also, there is a possible workaround by using vbscript for WOL in WSUS, but it may need some programing experience to modify the script tofulfill your requirement. I have found a related thread, for your reference: WSUS 2 Server issueshttp://www.wsus.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6205 Important Note: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites; therefore, Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. There are inherent dangers in the use of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software from the Internet. And I will report your concernas a feature request. Thanks again forbring your thought to us,I believe it will help us to improve our product. -----------------------------Sincerely,Guozhen WangMicrosoft Online Community Support

Hi, even if this topic is quite old, it still might be of interest for some people, that there is a quite simple solution for this problem IF you have a MS-DHCP server running in your environment. The job can be done with two seperate tools. dhcpcmd.exe (Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit Support Tools -> free for download from MS) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19109 You can extract it with e.g. 7-Zip (also the CAB-file) and simply rename "NETMGMT_NETTOOLS_dhcpcmd.exe" to "dhcpcmd.exe" wol.exe (WakeOnLAN-Utility by Greg Wittmeyer/Gammadyne Systems) http://www.gammadyne.com/wol.exe Id recommend to put both tools into the Windows folder (or maybe the System32 folder). Create a new Task in SCE 2010 (Configuration\Management Pack-Objects\Tasks) and fill in the following informations: Application: %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe Parameter: /k FOR /F "tokens=4" %i IN ('dhcpcmd <IP of the DHCP-server> enumclients <DHCP-lease-range> -h ^| FIND /i "$Target/Property[Type="MicrosoftWindowsLibrary6172210!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetbiosComputerName$"') DO WOL.exe %i Working Directory: %SystemRoot%\system32\ By using the "/k"-parameter you will keep a little Box showing the result of the command. If you dont want this, you can dismiss this parameter. Remember to change the <IP of the DHCP-server> and the <DHCP-lease-range> accordingly to your needs (the <DHCP-lease-range> should be something like 192.168.1.0). I tested this on Windows Server 2008 R2 (also the DHCP-Server is a seperate Machine running Server 2008 R2) and it works like a charm. I hope somebody will find this information helpful. Greetz to all